Burman, Francis

, the first upon record of a very
learned family, and professor of divinity at Utrecht, was
the son of Peter Burman, a Protestant minister at Frankendal, and was born at Leyden in 1632, where he pursued his studies. At the age of twenty-three he was
invited by the Dutch congregation at Hanau, in Germany,
to be their pastor, and thence he was recalled to Leyden,
and chosen regent of the college in which he had been
educated. Before he had been here a year, his high reputation occasioned his removal to Utrecht, where he was
appointed professor of divinity, and one of the preachers;
Here he acquired additional fame by his learning, and the
flourishing state to which he advanced the university. He
was reckoned an excellent philosopher, an eminent scholar
in the learned languages, and a good preacher. He died
Nov. 10, 1679. His principal works are Commentaries on
some of the books of the Old Testament, in Dutch,
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besides which he wrote in Latin: 1. “An Abridgment of
Divinity,” Utrecht, 1671, 2 vols. 4to, often reprinted.
2. “De Moralitate Sabbati,” 1665, which occasioned a
controversy with Essenius. 3. “Narratio de controversiis
nuperius in academia Ultrajectina motis, &c.” Utrecht,
1677, 4to. 4. “Exercitationes Academic^,” Rotterdam,
1683, 2 vols. 4to. 5. “Tractatus de Passione Christi,”
1695, 4to. 6. His “Academical discourses,” published
by Grasvius, with some account of the author, Utrecht,
1700, 4to, and the same year they were translated and
printed in Dutch. 1

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